Station Name: LLONG

 

[Source: Paul Wright]

Date opened: 14.8.1849
Location: On the west side of an unnamed minor road, 50 yards south of its junction with A5118
Company on opening: Mold Railway Company
Date closed to passengers: 30.4.1962
Date closed completely: 30.4.1962
Company on closing: British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state: The station building is extant although the track bed between the platforms has been infilled.
County: Flintshire
OS Grid Ref: SJ261623
Date of visit: 23.4.2005

Notes: Llong station opened in 1849 as part of the Mold Railway Companies double track line from Saltney near Chester to Mold. The line was extended to Denbigh Junction on 12/09/1869 by the Mold & Denbigh Junction Railway and it would become known as the Chester to Denbigh line. Llong Station closed as a wartime economy measure from 1.1.1917 to 5.5.1919

Although this line could never be described as a main line it did host regular passenger services between Corwen, Ruthin, Denbigh, Mold and Chester although by the early 1960's the only service to operate was the all stations Chester General to Denbigh and Ruthin service which usually consisted of only two coaches.

The station closed on 30.4.1962 but as section of the line was reopened in 1974 to serve a chemical factory just to the west of Mold until March 1983 but by this time it was connected into the former GCR Bidston to Wrexham line close to the site of Hope Low Level. This last remnant of the Chester - Denbigh line was lifted in the summer of 1985.

To see the other stations on the Chester - Denbigh line click on the station name: Saltney Ferry, Broughton & Bretton, Kinnerton,
Hope & Pen-y-ffordd, Hope Low Level, Padeswood & Buckley, Mold, Rhydymwyn, Star Crossing, Nannerch, Caerwys, Bodfari, & Denbigh


Llong Station in the early 1960's
P
hoto by Dave Nicholas



Llong Station looking west in March 1978
P
hoto by Alan Young


Llong Station in April 2005
P
hoto by Paul Wright
25 291 passes Llong Station on the remaining single line with
the Fison's weedkilling train on 26 July 1979
Photo by Larry Goddard from North Wales Coast Railway web site

2005

2005

 

 

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


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